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April 23, 2013

Three Nuclear Subs to Join Russian Navy by Year end

(RIA Novosti) - The Russian Navy will take delivery of two
Project 955 Borey-class ballistic-missile submarines, the Alexander
Nevsky and the Vladimir Monomakh, and one Yasen-class attack submarine,
the Severodvinsk, by the end of the year, a Defense Ministry official said on Tuesday.
Everything is going according to plan and there will be "no delays,"
said Andrei Vernigora, director of the ministry’s state defense
contracts department, refuting reports the Alexander Nevsky would only
be put into service only in 2014.
Alexander Nevsky is due to be commissioned with the Navy in
September, he added. The boat has been undergoing trials at the Sevmash
shipyard since 2012. A Bulava ballistic missile will be test-launched
from the submarine in the summer, a Navy official told RIA Novosti in
late March.
Alexander Nevsky is the second Borey-class submarine. The first, the
Yury Dolgoruky, entered service with the Northern Fleet in January, and
the third, the Vladimir Monomakh, was floated out last December and will
start trials in the White Sea in June, United Shipbuilding Corporation
President Andrei Dyachkov said earlier this month.
The Sevmash shipyard will start construction this year of two more
Borey-class Project 955A submarines - the Alexander Suvorov and the
Mikhail Kutuzov.

Severodvinsk nuclear attack submarine

Borey class submarines are to become the mainstay of the Navy's
strategic nuclear deterrent, replacing the ageing Project 941 (NATO
Typhoon class) and Project 667 class (Delta-3 and Delta-4) boats.
A total of eight Borey-class submarines are to be built for the Russian Navy by 2020.
Sevmash said in August it hoped to hand the Severodvinsk attack submarine over to the Russian Navy by the end of 2012.
The Severodvinsk carried out a series of cruise-missile test-firings
in November earlier including the test-launch of a supersonic cruise
missile at a land target. Laid down in 1993, Severodvinsk is one of
eight Yasen-class boats being built for the Russian Navy.
The multirole attack submarine has a submerged displacement of 13,800
tons, length of 119 meters, speed of 31 knots, and can dive to 600
meters. It has a crew of 90 including 32 officers.
It is armed with 3M55 Oniks (SS-N-26) and 3M54 (SS-N-27) Kalibr cruise missiles, torpedoes, and mines.